a “mental residence”, she looks back on her difficult beginnings as Miss France

Being a Miss France does not always mean being valued. In December 2000, Élodie Gossuin saw her life turned upside down at the age of 19 when she became Miss France 2001 against many competitors from all over France. Proud of her title and the new life, or at least year, that was offered to her, the fairy tale quickly turned into disappointment as she does not hide it today. Because if now she is one of the most popular former beauty queens, and has even converted to TV and radio entertainment, the path to recognition has been long, and above all, strewn with many humiliations for the wife of Bertrand Lacharie. Considered as “a mental stay that had to be spared out of Christian charity”Élodie Gossuin deplores the treatment given to her on the pretext that she was Miss France.

“This is a little the other side of the coin of the Miss France image”, she thus regretted in the emission We redo the TV on RTL. “I rubbed shoulders with a lot of people from television or show business with totally out of place thoughtslowering yourself, emitting lots of innuendobecause Miss and 20 years old and female.” Disappointed by the behavior of some people towards her, Élodie Gossuin had the impression that “apart from putting on pumps, a bathing suit, parading, you shouldn’t open your mouth“. Very young at the time, this mother of four even remembers a particularly traumatic episode on the set of France 3. Invited by Marc-Olivier Fogiel, 48 hours after his election, she then had her first (bad) experience in the media. “As soon as I said something, he answered me: ‘It’s good Miss France, you learned your lesson well‘”she recalled.

Élodie Gossuin experienced these remarks “very badly”

A reflection that the main interested party has “very bad” livedand this, because she had “the feeling that, whatever you say, whatever you do, already, you won’t be taken seriously“. With hindsight, Élodie Gossuin does not hold it against Marc-Olivier Fogiel, surely in part thanks to the other experiences she had on television afterwards. “It’s not mean, because he has his role too. But it doesn’t matter, because I chose to be Miss France, I chose to participate in this competition. I fully assume”she concluded, finding however “very dumb” to have had to wait until I was 41 to be “respected and legitimate”.